Kept Catholics - 50 Years of the Chieftains

[Sam Lord]

It isn't particularly nice to throw a coin on to the keyboard of an piano when your colleague is playing a solo. I don't know anything about music but I did spot that Moloney had a fairly self satisfied air as he got back into the limelight with his own solo.
Maybe it smells more of 'artistic differences' than buffonery?

It was clearly a pre-planned routine that was intended to be amusing.

Your man on the piano goes off on an extended solo in an entirely different genre of music to the tune they are performing. Paddy pretends to get exasperated and tries to get him to shut up .. flips him the coin, does the phone call, blah, blah ...

It may not be the funniest stage routine ever performed but really guys ..

This is really making a mountain out of a molehill.

But at least we seem to have got away from the accusations of fascism.

[Kev Bar]

It was clearly a pre-planned routine that was intended to be amusing.

Your man on the piano goes off on an extended solo in an entirely different genre of music to the tune they are performing. Paddy pretends to get exasperated and tries to get him to shut up .. flips him the coin, does the phone call, blah, blah ...

It may not be the funniest stage routine ever performed but really guys ..

This is really making a mountain out of a molehill.

But at least we seem to have got away from the accusations of fascism.

I'll return when you call.

PaddyJoe's read is much closer to what I saw cos in the Grand Canal the interuption was not as you say to a differing tune but purely to a solo when it started tentatively becoming a thing of beauty. It's was not a faux tune 'joke' but a 'don't lose the run of yourself there boyo' joke.
It seemed an affirmation of (faux) mediocrity over possible briallance.

Why?

The humour of old men a long time on the road is the only attempt at an explanation so far.

[PaddyJoe]

Uhm, maybe they're way too main stream and conventional these days. Here's some real jigpokery in Galicia last year with traditional piper Carlos Nuñez.
All very Riverdance.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yup20geL61I"]Muinheira de Chantada - Carlos Núñez & The Chieftains [live in Vigo, Galicia] - YouTube[/ame]

[bernadette]

I'll return when you call.

PaddyJoe's read is much closer to what I saw cos in the Grand Canal the interuption was not as you say to a differing tune but purely to a solo when it started tentatively becoming a thing of beauty. It's was not a faux tune 'joke' but a 'don't lose the run of yourself there boyo' joke.
It seemed an affirmation of (faux) mediocrity over possible briallance.

Why?

The humour of old men a long time on the road is the only attempt at an explanation so far.

Perhaps humour but I wonder if perhaps a too long buried rivalry might also have something to do with it.

Some musicians are good and successful and some have a touch of magic sheer genious.

[Sam Lord]

Uhm, maybe they're way too main stream and conventional these days. Here's some real jigpokery in Galicia last year with traditional piper Carlos Nuñez.
All very Riverdance.
Muinheira de Chantada - Carlos Núñez & The Chieftains [live in Vigo, Galicia] - YouTube

Nothing mainstream about the music. It is traditional Galician music. And Galician folk dancers ... with some Irish dancing thrown in at the end. Fun really.

[Sam Lord]

PaddyJoe's read is much closer to what I saw cos in the Grand Canal the interuption was not as you say to a differing tune but purely to a solo when it started tentatively becoming a thing of beauty. It's was not a faux tune 'joke' but a 'don't lose the run of yourself there boyo' joke.
It seemed an affirmation of (faux) mediocrity over possible briallance.

It was clearly a pre-planned routine. No musician in a group is going to lose the run of himself and go off on an extended rock guitar solo, for example, when the band is playing a smooth jazz number. It just wouldn't happen other than as a joke. I suspect that this is all a big wind up on your part as your lack of understanding of music is unlikely to be that great.

[Kev Bar]

Uhm, maybe they're way too main stream and conventional these days. Here's some real jigpokery in Galicia last year with traditional piper Carlos Nuñez.
All very Riverdance.
Muinheira de Chantada - Carlos Núñez & The Chieftains [live in Vigo, Galicia] - YouTube

The leaping Peig Astaires gave great Riverdance in the Grand Canal,

[Sam Lord]

Just looked at the video again. Half way through the piano solo Paddy acts like he wants to come in but can't because your man on the piano keeps going. But if you look at the musicians behind him they are not the least bit ready or interested in coming in .. they know that the gag is going to run a bit longer. Then when the piano solo ends the entire band comes in almost immediately and seamlessly .. on the beat. That could never be done if it was not rehearshed.

[Kev Bar]

Nothing mainstream about the music. It is traditional Galician music. And Galician folk dancers ... with some Irish dancing thrown in at the end. Fun really.

And here, my friend, we part ways.

[Sam Lord]

The leaping Peig Astaires gave great Riverdance in the Grand Canal,

So you don't like folk dancing. Fair enough. But why go to a performance that is likely to include it?

[Kev Bar]

So you don't like folk dancing. Fair enough. But why go to a performance that is likely to include it?

Why not read what I wrote?

[Kev Bar]

It looks like that other gaffe is run by hardcore Chieftains fans.

Or maybe Paddy is just the new Deco lining the pockets of the The Man (cub)



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[bernadette]

It looks like that other gaffe is run by hardcore Chieftains fans.

Or maybe Paddy is just the new Deco lining the pockets of the The Man (cub)



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I'm sorry about your problem there. The note seems very, er definite but perhaps you can email whoever deals with these things...How sad.

[Baron von Biffo]

It looks like that other gaffe is run by hardcore Chieftains fans.

Or maybe Paddy is just the new Deco lining the pockets of the The Man (cub)



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Free speech is not universally seen as a good thing.

[Kev Bar]

Free speech is not universally seen as a good thing.

Somehow I suspect I will go on living and partly living.

But for a Chieftains review .... you couldn't make it up